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In dueling announcements, Intel Corp. and International Business Machines Corp. separately say they have solved a puzzle perplexing the semiconductor industry about how to reduce energy loss in microchip transistors as the technology shrinks to the atomic scale.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/29/2007
Gates promises Vista will wow PC buyers.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/29/2007
Microsoft is ready to begin consumer sales of its new Vista operating system just after midnight tonight.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/29/2007
Virtualization vendor VMware announced Thursday it is shipping the public beta version of its Workstation 6.0 product.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/25/2007
The long-delayed launch of the Windows Vista operating system cut into fiscal second-quarter profits at Microsoft Corp., which reported a 28 percent drop in earnings Thursday despite decent revenue growth.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/25/2007
On the eve of the consumer launch of Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp. is extending the period in which it will offer support for the previous version, Windows XP.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/24/2007
Global consumers of XP Home to get extended support past '09, perhaps even longer than 2010.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/24/2007
Wall Street has welcomed Sun Microsystems Inc. back in the black, but investors are questioning whether the notoriously boom-and-bust company can remain profitable for the long term.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/24/2007
Microsoft is extending its branch office promotion to enterprises with a large number of remote branch sites, with discounts as deep as 43 percent, the company announced Wednesday.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/24/2007
Advanced Micro Devices Inc., the world's No. 2 microprocessor maker behind Intel Corp., said Tuesday that it swung to a loss in the fourth quarter as the company incurred heavy costs related to its acquisition of graphics chip maker ATI Technologies Inc., negating record processor sales.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/24/2007
TOKYO: Microsoft Corp. plans to extend the free support period for its Windows XP Home Edition software at least one year longer than originally planned, a news report said Wednesday.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/24/2007
Juror in Iowa antitrust trial against Microsoft dismissed for undisclosed reasons.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/24/2007
Bankers association reports that hackers have made fraudulent transactions using hacked TJX customer data.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/24/2007
Lockbox with backup tapes containing data on 130,000 Aetna members taken in break-in at insurer's outsourced billing services firm.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/24/2007
Microsoft says in late March it will release to manufacturing (RTM) the latest version of one of the most significant administration tools in its emerging System Center brand.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/24/2007
Microsoft cash offer raises question: What's wrong with accepting money to write on Wikipedia?
- By The Associated Press
- 01/24/2007
String along those Powershell expressions using this nifty trick.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 01/24/2007
The ever-expanding LeBron James empire is entering a new realm. Microsoft Corp. is using the NBA star to promote next week's consumer release of its new Windows Vista operating system. James will make what a Microsoft spokesman described Tuesday as cameo appearances on national television commercials that will begin airing Jan. 30.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/24/2007
Here's a tool that lets you quickly audit a user's Firefox browsing history.